“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said he wanted to get the repeal effort ‘out of the system’ so the Senate could move ahead with other business. While all 47 Senate Republicans are expected to back a full repeal, the plan will not receive enough votes to clear the measure…

“The push for an outright repeal is one of several strategies the GOP leadership is using to undermine support for the law. Senate Republicans also introduced legislation Tuesday that would allow states to opt out of key provisions of the new health care law.”

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“Senators John Barasso, R-WY, and Lindsey Graham, R-SC, have introduced The State Health Care Choice Act, written to allow states to opt out of the individual mandate, the employer mandate, expansion of Medicaid programs and “new federal requirements for regulating health insurance.” The senators, introducing the legislation at a presser, were admirably blunt…

“‘We’re opening up a third front in the challenges against Obama health care,’ said Graham. If the bill passed, ‘it would be easier for me to imagine more than half the states opting out of Obamacare. The bill would fall.’ Graham got a follow-up question, asking whether opting out would shrink the risk pool. ‘You’ve hit the point. The goal is repeal and replace.’ The goal was to bring the debate over health care into the 2012 campaign and into ‘the streets.’”

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If Dems were smart, they’d vote overwhelmingly for repeal and get back to sniping at the status quo. It was a winning posture for them before, and could be a winning posture now — but by trying to hold onto the “gain” of Obamacare, they’re poisoning their position.

Here in Montana, Senator Tester seals his defeat with a vote against repeal. Obamacare is wildly unpopular here in Montana, and Tester knows it. One poll taken recently had Obamacare at 66% strongly dislike, and only 22% strongly like. Congressman Rehberg has decided to run for Testers Senate seat in 12…

Goodbye Tester, we won’t forget you anytime soon.
It’s smart to get every politician on record with a vote for or against this wildly unpopular bill. Tester has been in hiding for the past 18 months, won’t face the public here in Montana. Same with Baucus.

I’m of the belief that Obamacare is the Holy Grail to the Democrats, and anyone of these men/woman in that party that votes against this bill has put their own life in danger. Seriously, those who run that party are not playing games. There is a very serious worldwide move in play here.

Obamacare opens thousands of doors for big brother while closing thousands of doors for a free man.

It’s smart to get every politician on record with a vote for or against this wildly unpopular bill. Tester has been in hiding for the past 18 months, won’t face the public here in Montana. Same with Baucus.

Keemo on February 2, 2011 at 7:43 AM

I highly doubt the 17th Amendment will ever be repealed, but if this isn’t a perfect example of why it should be, I can’t for the life of me think of what it would be.

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very Liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words
redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to
keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many college friends, because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, ‘How is your friend Audrey doing?’ She replied, ‘ Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She’s always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn’t even show up for classes because she’s too hung over.’

Her wise father asked his daughter, ‘Why don’t you go to the dean’s office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA, and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.’ The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily fired back, ‘That’s a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I’ve worked really hard for my grades! I’ve invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!’

I hate to say it my friend, but that scary thought is not going to escape us here in the states. Obamacare will be repealed, wiped out and burned into ashes. The American people will not have this and are willing to fight what ever battle the Progressives throw at us. In 2012 the GOP will win back the Senate in a huge fashion, as well as taking back the White House. This leads me to ask… What is the Progressive plan to stop this from taking place. Very dangerous times lie ahead.

Unions across our nation are preparing their members for “taking it to the streets” and doing what ever it takes. If we choose to ignore what we see here in this video, we do so at our won peril. These progressives are in to win; they will not likely sit back and say oh well, we lost this time. The cash flow to unions is about to end with the GOP holding the purse strings in Congress. Union leaders have been firing up the hatred/anger buttons now for quite some time.

Cities such as LA, SF, Chicago, NY, Boston could get ugly when the flow of cash ends for the unions. There has been talk here with some of our legislators about this, and what to do if all hell breaks loose. I actually heard one of our representatives talking about the chaos and violence leading to radical choices for Obama, that this could be part of a larger plan. It blew my mind to think that our representatives have such a feeling about what Obama might do and or be planning. Paranoid, or simply trying to read the cards… For me, I’m praying for level heads to prevail, but also planning for the worst. Our basement is loaded with canned food, water, and dry food. The unsustainable nature, kicking the can down the road; it all had to end at some point in time…

We are watching Tester. I used to email his office and even called at one point, but all I got was stock talking point answers. Figured he wasn’t doing his job and had enough aides to take care of business while he went to the local buffet. He did make an appearance recently at one of the reservations to tell the people about all the govt money they will be getting from Washington after the court decision. He was also at some lib town meetings pushing his forest and land grab bill. So, yes, he does show up once in awhile.